Tisha wrote:The Victoria Island belongs to the Copper River tribe.. I was hoping to bring those together with the army numbersThe Southhampton island I'm not sure what to do with, it's not a territory oif it's own... I was thinking about just deleting the color off of it and leaving it neutral..

only two territories separate from their pack... I would like to put some canoe outline, or something ike that at the base of the Mississippi to connect Natchez and Choctaw

everything i can think of has been pretty much stated already. this map has jaw dropping graphics and just looks perfect already. my main issues are the borders cutting through the islands in the artic, some one them you can resolve with an army number i bet but some of them not so much.

also id like to add while the bonuses do need a little tweaking like people have said, the current set up makes the map rather realistic since there will be a lot more action in the south than in the north and thats how it was 500 years ago but seeing as this is CC id probably prefer a map that plays well and is decently accurate over a map that plays horribly and is perfectly accurate

Tisha wrote:The Victoria Island belongs to the Copper River tribe.. I was hoping to bring those together with the army numbersThe Southhampton island I'm not sure what to do with, it's not a territory oif it's own... I was thinking about just deleting the color off of it and leaving it neutral..

only two territories separate from their pack... I would like to put some canoe outline, or something ike that at the base of the Mississippi to connect Natchez and Choctaw

What an awesome idea... canoes for passable routes is genious!!! lends chaicter and authenticity all in one swoop..

I've had my heart on a map like this for as long as i have been here. The culture and politics were highly developed here long before europeans came and those aspects are rarely represented in everyday life. Most people dont know the extent the americas were populated prior to european colonazation.

Kudos Tisha!!!!

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I see some problems, the fist is with the southwest. Say that someone has all the territories of the southeast bonus region on the east of the missisipi river, if he doesn't have some other territory on the other side then it is going to be really har for him to compleat his bonus. I like bonuses that are hard to get but then it needs to be worth more.

If the date is set at 1500, or give or take a bit, then you can have hispaniola and cuba both native territories that can border maya and seminole which would help solve the above problem and make the map easier to move around.

WOW! For a first and second draft that is amazing, I would expect that to be maybe a 5th draft but it is beautiful, I have nothing to offer because alot of people have already took what I was originally going to say; but keep up the great work.

-I'm still working on names of territories, and probably will be for quite a while.. any information there helps..-added a canoe as a passable.... does it need to be put onto the map? or is it obvious?

Just three quick things because I love this map1. Get rid of the compass it does not fit with the map2. Either capitalize the names or don't but don't have it random3. Add more canoes because that river really divides the map and only one looks odd

sailorseal wrote:Just three quick things because I love this map1. Get rid of the compass it does not fit with the map2. Either capitalize the names or don't but don't have it random3. Add more canoes because that river really divides the map and only one looks odd

i like the compass.... why doesn't it fit?all the names are capitalized, it's the font i'm using. (that i love)

However I must say that I have a big problem with the colours used. It is very hard for me to differentiate between a region and another.

Also would it be possible to have a mini map instead of just listing the various regions?

is it mostly the California Great Basin areas? like between Pomo and Paiute?

Unless you did not know I am colour blind so I may be seeing the colours a bit differently. What could help is making the adjacent regions' colours different from each other to help differentiate between them.

I have a problem with more than one region actually. Aren't Pomo and Paiute part of the same region?

two other things that bug me:first, the map looks very very red on my screen, i think it would be easier to read if the saturation of the generally red aura the whole map has was turned down a bit.Second, the Arctic region looks like it has two terits that aren't connected to the rest of the region: Aluet and Chugachigmiur. I think that no region should have to go through another region to attack a terit that is part of its bonus. Makes it really hard to take that bonus.

though, both of these are deff my personal opinion, so let me know what you think.

Good map! An interesting project.Mountains are beautiful.And the possibilities of developing a great map are very high!

I think you have to work a lot on colors, i'm not colorblind but there're some zones that are very difficult to distinguish. For exemple Meso America color is "invisible" in the legend.Plateau is difficult to find on map.You have to make more clear some regions....Where is Eyak and where is tlingit?What regions Beothuk can attack? I suggest you to "remove" the northern zone of copper region, make only confusion

Personally i think the legend is very big

You need to balance the game, a good start in the south could be an easy +2 bonus (for meso america) withonly 1 border to defend (coahuiltee)Rivers make the east zone impenetrable, Mountains do the same in the west part, and there's a big vertical central zone in which seems more difficult to find a quick way to take the dominance during the game.

Any suggestions for bonuses now...

Anyway, your map is one of the best i've seen in the last period.C'mon! Make really great this map

TNBDS

I do NOT visit this site and I'm NOT Team CC anymore.All PMs are autobinned. If you need to contact me, you should already have a way to do it without using this site.Thanks to those who helped me through the years.

sailorseal wrote:Just three quick things because I love this map1. Get rid of the compass it does not fit with the map2. Either capitalize the names or don't but don't have it random3. Add more canoes because that river really divides the map and only one looks odd

i like the compass.... why doesn't it fit?all the names are capitalized, it's the font i'm using. (that i love)

That's actually a good point about the compass...I'm pretty sure it was a European invention, and that there wouldn't have been a compass (at least in that style) in pre-European N.A.

However, there definitely was an understanding of the cardinal points of the compass in Native North American culture, with the points of the compass figuring prominently in culture & mythology. Perhaps incorporating a less European-looking compass would work?

Ruben Cassar wrote:I have a problem with more than one region actually. Aren't Pomo and Paiute part of the same region?

Actually no, those are different regions. I can see the problem though as the background on the mountain range kind of fades down into the California territories. The same mountain background color matches the Paiute region perfectly.